The Meeting We All Desperately Need

Last week, I attended a webinar hosted by Michael Hyatt, the New York Times Bestselling Author, speaker, and blogger. I highly recommend his work, especially as he teaches from a Christian perspective. One of the action items from this webinar involved “making an appointment to write” and keeping it just as you would any other appointment. He placed emphasis on this phrase: “What gets scheduled gets done.”

If you are laughing hysterically, you might be a mother with young children.

I’ve had more than one schedule implode in the face of kitchen catastrophes, emergency room visits, colored walls (or floors), and other unforeseeable incidents. At one point, I had three children aged three and under—one newborn, one potty training, and one threenager. I get it.

In spite of these challenging seasons of life, we still manage to be at doctor’s appointments, baseball games, date nights, and plenty of other engagements. We also have ample time to check our phones and watch movies. If something is important to us, we will make time for that something.

Over the past 23 years of being a Christian, I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve heard these statements:

“I need to read my Bible more often.”

“I forget to pray every day.”

“I’m so busy, I don’t have time to go to bible study.” 

Here lies the crux of the issue: We need to stop trying to squeeze God into the crevices of our time and start squeezing everything else around time with Him… Read the rest of the article at TheCourage.com